Dictanote was built for people who think out loud: writers dictating a chapter, students capturing lectures, and professionals jotting down decisions during meetings. Instead of a separate transcription tool, dictation is embedded right in the editor, so you can start and stop voice input with a keyboard shortcut and keep typing whenever you prefer. Voice commands let you say punctuation, new paragraphs, and even custom shortcuts like a signature sign-off or a technical term.
The app covers 50+ languages and 80+ dialects, with quick language switching, and organises notes into notebooks that can be starred or shared with others by email or link. Notes auto-save, sync to the cloud, and remain readable and editable offline, with changes merged when you reconnect. Dictanote can be installed as a standalone app on desktop, Android, and iOS, and it carries a 4.4 rating from 800+ reviews with over 100,000 users.
The same team ships related tools: Voice In, a Chrome extension for dictating inside any website, and Transcribe together with AudioScribe for turning pre-recorded audio files or new voice notes into clean text. Dictanote stores notes encrypted on its servers and states that it does not store or process your audio, relying on the browser's speech-to-text service instead.